Posts categorized under: 2024-Fall

Kenneth on agreement on multiple tiers (10/11)

This week Kenneth will be presenting his work on agreement on multiple tiers.

Often, agreement targets the closest DP to some functional head which bears the right features. But in some languages there are other hierarchies, such person/animacy, which outrank structural closeness. Kenneth shows how such hierarchies can be …

Anton on transducer continuity (09/13)

There has been lots of work over the last ~20 years situating the phonotactics of natural language in certain classes of subregular languages and finding logical, automata-theoretic and algebraic characterizations of these classes.

This has allowed linguists not only to better understand the cognitive nature of phonological generalizations but also …

M on compositional semantics (09/06)

This week M will be presenting original research on compositional semantics.

Although compositional semanticists tend to have a lot to say about the logical forms of lexical items and sentences, they tend to have a lot less to say about what truly makes their theory run: the nature of semantic …